A B unit just after the BN merger but still with its NP number and paint. Kodachrome II film.

Once again CPR 8171 has run over a derail and is waiting for help to get back on the track.

The fresh paint glistens in the afternoon sun at Ray Junction, AZ. This is the first new paint scheme for the Copper Basin in over 20 years.

This engine is awaiting repairs or scrapping at the Uceta Yard in Tampa.

Extra 168 South is flying the white flags near Sault Ste Marie on a sunny February afternoon. It was rare to see 5 GP7's on an ore train - usually the SD40's were used for this service.

Here is a GP7 with its large UDE light...this is an early GP7.

A set of Northern Pacific power and psgr cars is leaving the GN station just after the merger. Unit number is a BN number.

This was the only time I got all five of the rebuilt GP7's on one train. This is No. 4 southbound going by Frater Station. I was on duty at the time, so I got the night operator up to hoop the tra... (more)

6 clean Alco units are pulling about 130 empty sand cars off the Holbrook main and then will shove them back onto the Snowflake branch.

The southbound Copper Country Limited is at the Iron Mountain (MI) station. Taken with available light on Kodachrome II film with an old Kodak Rangefinder camera.

Southbound out of Chicago on a sunny June morning.

A set of FM power is switching out cars for the branch line to Marinette, Wisconsin on a pleasant July afternoon.

3 FM H16-66 units are setting off cars at the yard in the late afternoon. This was what we called the "afternoon freight". It is southbound. Taken on Kodachrome II film.

UP Special is going around the west leg of the wye at Picacho, Arizona showing off the newly completed double tracking project here.

The southbound Peninsula 400 makes a quick station stop at Menominee on a sunny April morning just over 49 years ago!